Guest
Video, 4:16, 2008
In Guest the artist enters the frame and begins to climb the obstacles in front of her. She is prevented from a successful ascent by her own editing which refuses to allow what the viewer would assume to be the successful conclusion of the task.
Artist's Bio:
Absurd, humorous and oddly poignant, Catalina Niculescu’s work exists somewhere between performance and documentation. The artist’s seemingly impulsive responses to the places she encounters are recorded (filmed) and edited to create enigmatic "events" in three simultaneous media: film, video and photography. Catalina Niculescu was born in 1978 in Bucharest, Romania, and studied at the Academy of Art & Design in Offenbach, Germany and at the Slade, London.